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PING: DANA Answere

natalya35@hotmail.com

2005-04-26, 5:51 pm

Dana:

The steroid cocktail is:

1 cc Kenalog and 1/2 - 1 cc Depomedrol injected IM

Hope this helps you and your doc, and more importantly your migraines.
For me, it takes 6 to 12 hours for it to take the migraine pain away,
but it keeps the migraine away for quite awhile before I get another
because it stays in the body.

Nat

Dana Taramina

2005-04-27, 10:52 pm

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:59:19 GMT, natalya35@hotmail.com wrote:

>Dana:
>
>The steroid cocktail is:
>
>1 cc Kenalog and 1/2 - 1 cc Depomedrol injected IM
>
Thanks Nat! I go see Doc tomorrow.

>Hope this helps you and your doc, and more importantly your migraines.
>For me, it takes 6 to 12 hours for it to take the migraine pain away,

Hey, that's better than 10 or 11 or howevermany days.

>but it keeps the migraine away for quite awhile before I get another
>because it stays in the body.

Thanks again...

Dana

natalya35@hotmail.com

2005-04-27, 10:52 pm

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:27:44 GMT, Dana Taramina
<danamania@spamicide.gryffyn.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:59:19 GMT, natalya35@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>Thanks Nat! I go see Doc tomorrow.
>
>
>Hey, that's better than 10 or 11 or howevermany days.
>
>
>Thanks again...
>
>Dana

Sure hope it helps and he is willing to give it a try. In my docs
practice if he is out of town and I get hit none of his associates
will give it to me, just the old demerol/phenergan routine, even
though it is right there in my chart. You'd think they'd be jumping
to give me a non-narcotic, although I know steroid abuse abounds as
well these days. Still, frustrating as all get out, especially when I
*know* the cocktail works and the demerol/phenergan just takes the
edge off for a few hours so I get a little nap, but it comes right
back, often stronger than before

At this point, fingers still
crossed, Topamax, at 6 weeks is still working. Had a *regular*
headache today. Got a bit worried, but 2 aleve and lying down took it
out in about an hour. Almost nice, in a weird way only people who
have had real migraines can understand...

Good Luck. Hope it works. Fingers crossed, special prayer for you
tonight Dana

Best thoughts and wishes too.

Nat

Dana Taramina

2005-04-28, 11:51 am

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:04:30 GMT, natalya35@hotmail.com wrote:

>Sure hope it helps and he is willing to give it a try. In my docs
>practice if he is out of town and I get hit none of his associates
>will give it to me, just the old demerol/phenergan routine, even
>though it is right there in my chart. You'd think they'd be jumping
>to give me a non-narcotic, although I know steroid abuse abounds as
>well these days.

Well, yeah. If you're a 300 pound weight lifter or a college football
player. I don't understand why his partners can't just *read your
chart* and do what it says. <sigh> I'm very frustrated. If my doc says
to me "well, this is great. Take this piece of paper to the ER next
time you have such and such a headache" I don't know what I'll do. My
ER is a disaster. Because I'm covered in tattoos they take one look at
me and label me as a drug seeker. OK, I am a drug seeker, but not in
the way they think I am. I NEED HELP AND I'M NOT GETTING IT.

>Still, frustrating as all get out, especially when I
>*know* the cocktail works and the demerol/phenergan just takes the
>edge off for a few hours so I get a little nap, but it comes right
>back, often stronger than before

I don't get it. I'd think they'd be jumping at the chance to *not*
give you a narcotic.

>At this point, fingers still
>crossed, Topamax, at 6 weeks is still working. Had a *regular*
>headache today. Got a bit worried, but 2 aleve and lying down took it
>out in about an hour. Almost nice, in a weird way only people who
>have had real migraines can understand...

No kidding. I don't get "regular" headaches any more.
>
>Good Luck. Hope it works. Fingers crossed, special prayer for you
>tonight Dana

Best thoughts and wishes too.

Thanks, and fingers crossed for you and the Topamax too.

Dana

natalya35@hotmail.com

2005-04-28, 11:51 am

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:06:29 GMT, Dana Taramina
<danamania@spamicide.gryffyn.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:04:30 GMT, natalya35@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
>Well, yeah. If you're a 300 pound weight lifter or a college football
>player. I don't understand why his partners can't just *read your
>chart* and do what it says. <sigh> I'm very frustrated. If my doc says
>to me "well, this is great. Take this piece of paper to the ER next
>time you have such and such a headache" I don't know what I'll do. My
>ER is a disaster.

Most are, IMHO. The ER closest to me won't do the steroid either.
Last bad migraine I had included a stiff neck so I got a
Toradol/dilaudid/benadryl/compazine and, I think a muscle relaxer ALL
AT ONCE in an IV. Talk about the whirlies! Once again, I was pretty
dopey at least for the spinal tap/lumbar puncture to rule out
meningitis (I had a fever as well). But big NO on the steroid. That
may have been though because of the neck thing. I originally had gone
to urgent care and they were setting up to give me IV steroid
treatment (boy was I shocked, they had never agreed to that before,
only demerol/phenergan, but they have always kept me there giving me
as many doses as necessary until the pain got down to a 4. Pretty
decent place) but again, when I couldn't move my neck as they tried
to start the IV, they called the squad to take me to the ER on a board
in a neck brace. So, if I *do* get a bad migraine in the evening or
on a weekend and the right doc is on call and it is before 8:00 pm, I
stand a chance at that urgent care. Hoping still that the Topamax
will keep them all away - not sure that *that* is realistic though -
less of them, less intensity, and not as long and any combination of
these I guess would be tolerable.

Good luck!

Nat

> Because I'm covered in tattoos they take one look at
>me and label me as a drug seeker. OK, I am a drug seeker, but not in
>the way they think I am. I NEED HELP AND I'M NOT GETTING IT.
>
>
>I don't get it. I'd think they'd be jumping at the chance to *not*
>give you a narcotic.
>
>
>No kidding. I don't get "regular" headaches any more.
>
>Thanks, and fingers crossed for you and the Topamax too.
>
>Dana